Brian Stafford

@briancst.bsky.social

Trad musician. Photography enthusiast. Software dev from an embedded/electronics engineering background, Open Source enthusiast.

Russia can’t stop Ukraine from blowing up their weapons & oil infrastructure. So they blow up Ukrainian homes, playgrounds, cafes, hospitals, schools, museums, churches... Forget morals for a moment — do the math & tell me which side is winning. Now morals back on: Fuck Russia.

The USA has not only ceased being leader of the free world, it has ceased being a member of the free world. It betrays democratic allies and supports expansionist dictatorships. The only question Americans need to ask themselves is do they want this to continue?

People need to understand that it is a good thing if Trump threatens to leave NATO and says the US will not fight for Europe. The truth was the alliance was dead the moment he became president again. The US under him would never fight to defend Europe from Russia. Pretending otherwise was dangerous.

If the US war on Iran ends up with the Iranian regime still in power and Iran able to charge tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, it will be the quickest and most comprehensive defeat that the US has ever suffered—and alarms bells should start ringing loudly about the future of US power.

Whoever DM'd me - UK age verification means I can't read the message. I'm not prepared to trust my data to third parties, so sorry about that. TBH given the UK govt's enthusiasm to trustiing the likes of Palantir with our data (NHS, defence etc) that ship has probably sailed but hey ho.